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DArtagnan
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Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. I've long abandoned such uselessness, maybe not soon after I saw Fellowship of the Ring. I started to see it as a separate product from the books. Sure you have hopes and dreams for the transition to the silver screen, but it's a different medium and you can't control the outcome. People should stop trying to control every outcome.
It's not about the illusion of control, it's about the freedom of speech. When something is not like one feels it should be, then I consider it very natural to speak out against it. Even for something as relatively insignificant as a computer game.
You're speaking about the changes to the LOTR movies as if every single one of them was a necessity for adaption to the big screen. I find that suggestion extremely flawed, because I personally see a ton of changes that did not have to be there and did not - to my mind - enhance the experience of cinema.
For the record, I like the movies very much and consider them works of art.
I'm not sure I see any logical reasoning in not voicing concerns when things are registered to invoke them. That would be counterproductive to the truth, and it could be considered irresponsible.
I was pissed when Metallica started to abandon their roots and make crap music. Now, who cares? They drove their own creativity in the ground. Wait, now I sound bitter, don't I? Point is, I see what you mean, but in the end, it doesn't really matter. You shouldn't pin your identity down on the product of someone else.
Why do you assume it has to do with identity? I like something, I see it lessened, and I speak out about it. Is that the same as using it as my identity? That is a very strange viewpoint if you ask me.
Then again, I never had an idol except perhaps my brother when I was a young boy, and I retain a great measure of respect for my parents, but I certainly didn't do what they did, nor do they necessarily inspire my opinions about everything. Point being, maybe you identified with Metallica and maybe you shouldn't have done that. I suspect it has very little to do with the way most hardcore fans are responding to Fallout 3.
In any case, what you saw happen to Metallica is not entirely dissimilar to what has been happening to the gaming industry as a whole. Judging from how you sound, I find it hard to believe that you're really as totally indifferent about it as you claim. Maybe it's because you don't care about games like you used to care about Metallica, but remember that we don't all idolize the people responsible for products we like.
The Fallout series has a lineage that a lot of people want to see respected, but that doesn't mean it has to. At least not in the way they perceive it. Bethesda may have a vision of their own, as Fallout fans of their own, that doesn't jibe with those old-school hardcore fans. They should just accept it instead of cursing the devs to Hell.
I find it interesting that you're literally saying that they should just accept it. You're not even offering your own perspective as a possible alternative, no you're actually telling people what they should do.
Naturally, you have as little influence in the matter of what people will do as the rest of us, so it doesn't bother me. I just happen to wonder how one can come to feel justified in telling others what they should do, based on his own individual perception of life.
Live life for yourself. Bethesda's vision of it will be Bethesda's vision and they will probably be extremely proud of their work once it's finished. If they'd have made it for some other audience, not very much so. In turn, those fans have the freedom to hate the result, but be true to yourself and don't just hate it because it deviates from the original formula.
Why must it be about hate?
I'm not sure I get that perception, but maybe it's because I don't put all hardcore fans into one basket.
In any case, I doubt you will find many people being more true to themselves than I, but I suppose it's possible.
My way of being true to myself includes speaking my mind about things that I care about. I can't be sure that I will dislike Fallout 3, but I do feel very certain that it will not remain true to the originals to the extent most hardcore fans would prefer. If they dislike the game, then maybe it's not "just" because of the deviation, but the consequences to the gameplay and the overall experience of such deviations.
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